Chief Medical Officer

Welcome to health system where incredible people deliver comprehensive, whole person care to every life we touch across Colorado and western Kansas. As part of the Centura Health team, you’ll experience the unstoppable spirit of our connected caregivers, while having the resources and support you need to Live your Mission and serve as a difference-maker in your career.

We seek a progressive, energetic, team-oriented CMO to join the Penrose-St. Francis executive leadership team in Colorado Springs – a mid-size city frequently recognized for outstanding quality of life and often ranked as one of the nation’s best places to live. In this role, you’ll oversee and collaborate with a high-functioning team of physicians and associates who share a passion for excellence and live Centura Health’s core values. This position also offers the option for you to continue practicing on a limited basis (20%) or spend 100% of your time focused on CMO responsibilities.

Working in partnership with Penrose-St. Francis Health Services CEO, CNO and Medical Staff to produce excellence in clinical outcomes and effectiveness, you’ll build relationships and help drive the strategic direction and overall operational management of physician services and medical staff administration for our two locations – Penrose St. Francis Hospital and St. Francis Medical Center. Operating under one license and governed by a single board of directors, with over 500 combined beds, you’ll help create meaningful change and optimize processes to enable the growth and continued success of Penrose-St. Francis Health Services both in the Colorado Springs market and throughout the region.

This opportunity calls for a progressive, highly-involved and approachable physician leader who puts team before self, is comfortable in a rapidly-changing environment, believes in high reliability principles and is skilled in bringing people together to integrate Centura Health’s system initiatives and priorities at a local level. Required qualifications include:

• Licensed Physician with clinical background (board certified while in clinical practice)
• MD, Board Certified in an approved clinical specialty required while in clinical practice; MBA or MHA,or PhD preferred.
• Five years’ of proven, progressive responsibility in healthcare leadership roles, committees or appointments. Medical staff relations, quality measurement credentialing and previous medical management experience highly desirable.
• Knowledge of JCAHO, managed care and health policy to effectively integrate medical management.
• Willingness to relocate and live in Colorado Springs.

With two health campuses in the Colorado Springs market with a third location under construction, it’s an incredible time to join us we celebrate more than a decade as one of Healthgrades “America’s 50 Best Hospitals” and our Magnet Hospital designation from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) for superior quality in nursing care. Established in 1890, Penrose Hospital serves as the anchor hospital and has grown to become a major health treatment and regional referral center, specializing in cancer care, cardiac care, emergency trauma care, physical rehabilitation and serves as southern Colorado’s home base for the Flight For Life® Colorado air medical helicopter service. St. Francis Medical Center (SFMC) opened in 2008 to keep pace with the growing needs of the Colorado Springs’ community on the north side of the city and features a modern Birth Center, recently-expanded Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Care Unit, Emergency Department, Level III Trauma Center, Imaging Services, Surgical Services and Critical Care Unit, With more nearly 300 days of annual sunshine, mild winters and easy access places like Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods and some of Colorado’s top destination resorts, you will enjoy an incredible lifestyle while enjoying an exceptional career.